Giovanni's Room

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.”

the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.

People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness,

Perhaps he is a fool and a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.

a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named—but